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• deep space: n. 1. Describes the notional location of any program that has gone {off the trolley}.
  Esp. used of programs that just sit there silently grinding long after either failure or some output is expected....
• off the trolley: adj. Describes the behavior of a program that malfunctions and goes catatonic, but doesn't actually {crash} or abort.
  See {glitch}, {bug}, {deep space}. -- The AI Hackers Dictionary...
• hyperspace: /hi:'per-spays/ n. A memory location that is *far* away from where the program counter should be pointing, often inaccessible because it is not even mapped in.
  Another core dump --- looks like the program jumped off to hyperspace somehow....
• hyperspace /hi:'per-spays/ n. A memory location that is far away from where the program counter should be pointing
  especially a place that is inaccessible because it is not even mapped in by the virtual-memory system....
• Helen Keller mode: n. 1. State of a hardware or software system that is deaf, dumb, and blind, i.
  e., accepting no input and generating no output, usually due to an infinite loop or some other excursion into {deep space}....
• oftware rot n. Term used to describe the tendency of software that has not been used in a while to lose
  uch failure may be semi-humorously ascribed to bit rot....
• bum 1. vt. To make highly efficient, either in time or space, often at the expense of clarity.
  I managed to bum three more instructions out of that code....
• deep magic n. [poss. from C. S. Lewis's "Narnia" books] An awesomely arcane technique central to a program or system, esp.
  one neither generally published nor available to hackers at large (compare black art)...
• vaxocentrism /vak`soh-sen'trizm/ n. [analogy with `ethnocentrism'] A notional disease said to afflict C programmers who persist in coding according to certain assumptions that are valid (esp.
  under Unix) on VAXen but false elsewhere. Among these are...